As for your question: No you shouldn't have to rebuild everything. This was a 'minor' upgrade to glibc (Eg usually bugfix). if you were going from say 3.1 or 3.2 to 3.3/3.4 then yes, you should rebuild your sytem._________________{ NO -U } { STRIP }
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Ok , looks like the print issue was that I use TurboPrint with includes dynamically linked binaries.

I rebuilt turboprint and all is well.

(BTW Tuboprint is excellent and turbo FAST if sadly not open source.)

It may indeed have been changing glibc that prevented this from working .

This still shows problems with CUPS however .

I can print from a command line with lpr but jobs sent to CUPS seem to get classed as done instantly but never come out.

If try to restart the job from the job done list I get the following error.

client-error-not-possible

Thanks thanks to anyone who can enlighten me , _________________Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not worth paying for.
Gentoo because I'm a masochist
AthlonXP-M on A7N8X. Portage ~x86

Well I seem to be talking to myself in this thread but in case anyone is following this I seem to have fixed the pb by creating a new printer in the cups interface.

sometimes this seems to be necessary but I dont yet understand why.

In any case it seems to do the trick. _________________Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not worth paying for.
Gentoo because I'm a masochist
AthlonXP-M on A7N8X. Portage ~x86

Don't know about the others but the reason I haven't replied is I had nothing helpful to add I do very little printing, and don't even have a printer of my own hooked up, I always send it over the lan to the missus and have her print it lol. I'm just too lazy to set things up 'proper', and as I said, don't print enough to warrent it._________________{ NO -U } { STRIP }
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* Figured out that my /dev/lp0 was working alright. So i knew it was a problem with cups or the client. All clients used to work so it's a cups problem.
* Figured out lp and lpr etc. where showing the scheduler error.
* Read these threads. And tried the following:

Thank you!
I was 3 seconds away from using my Canon i950 as a makeshift football until I saw this thread.
I saw this:

Quote:

The printer shows "idle, accepting jobs " and "ready to print" from cups admin but it does nothing.

Even if I try to print the test page cups gives it a job number but nothing appears in the jobs section of cups.

and that you were using turboprint as well ... bells went off. So I deleted the printer via the CUPS web admin and re-added it... PRESTO! It works, very weird. So if anyone else is using turboprint, try the web admin instead of xtpsetup. Thanks again, and my printer is grateful that you saved its life, it's still sitting in the corner with a worried look on its face.

rebooted, added new printers using both gimp-print and turboprint drivers.

Still get the same crap errors.

Either "Media tray empty" : bullshit.
or

"Unable to open USB device "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20925": No such device"

Well if there's no such device how the hell does it llist it during add printer and modify printer from CUPS web admin page?

Last time was a bodgy workaround , this time I require a SOLUTION . Does anyone understand why CUPS config is so unstable or how to rectify this?

The forums are loaded with similar problems and a google search shows suse, redhat ... users getting just the same stupid errors.

WTF?

Phew I feel a bit better, any ideas anyone? _________________Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not worth paying for.
Gentoo because I'm a masochist
AthlonXP-M on A7N8X. Portage ~x86

For those who follow, masking the offending ghostscript version was sufficient for me.

This bug has been known about for over 6weeks!

Why isnt this masked?!

I am getting more and more frustrated with dealing with this sort of crap every time I update Gentoo.

I spend more time maintaining the damn system than using it.

In any case thanks a lot for your help. _________________Linux, because I'd rather own a free OS than steal one that's not worth paying for.
Gentoo because I'm a masochist
AthlonXP-M on A7N8X. Portage ~x86